...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.